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Logrotate 2.0 comments & questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Sat Nov 30 08:10:27 1996
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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 14:08:51 +0100
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
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Hi,
I had a quick look at logrotate 2.0 (didn't spell the code yet),
and a few questions remain (thanks for the man page!, although
it still doesn't answer _all_ questions).
First I want to say that I like some of the new features, especially
"include", making it easy for a package to have its own logrotate
config file.
My questions and comments:
- Does logrotate now move a file, rather that copying it, so that
some process may continue writing to it without any problem (e.g.,
ftpd writing to xferlog)? [I guess yes, but I'm not sure]
- Related to this: some time ago I suggested an (IMHO) useful feature.
When you don't compress the last rotated logfile immediately after
moving it, but postponing this compress action to the next rotate
cycle, you can still allow compression for this type of logfiles.
[I think the xferlog example in the manpage refers to this situation,
but it is suggested to use no compression, while my "trick" would
solve the problem. Could this become a new option "nocompresslast"
or so, which can be used in combination with "compress"?]
- The nocompress option is not described in the man page (I can guess
what it does ;-)).
- I vote for an option to create a new, empty logfile after moving it,
with the same mode/owner/group (!) as the old logfile (option "create"
or so). This would be a nice feature, because there exist packages
requiring a specific logfile to exist, with a specific mode or owner.
Other packages do logging if and only if a (writeable) logfile exists.
Thanks for the improvements so far.
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